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I call it dinner, now, but it was always "supper" when I was growing up, and the noon meal was "dinner". We often had a hot meal at noon when we weren't in school, and everyone was home. I remember my dad coming home from work at noon for "dinner". (I remember him wearing a special large "bib" my mother made him so he wouldn't get anything on his shirt and tie when dinner was something messy, like spaghetti and meat balls). We always had "Sunday dinner" at noon on Sundays. It was the biggest meal of the week, actually. We usually had oven roasted chicken, roast pork, or roast beef prepared in the pressure cooker, mashed potatoes and gravy from scratch, etc. We'd eat this huge meal, clean up, then read the Sunday paper and funnies, watch sports on TV, or take a nap. When I hear the word "dinner", that is always what comes to mind.
I call it dinner, but I remember my Mother calling it supper when I was young. I think she says dinner now? We only had one dinner/supper, and it was at 6pm. Funny that some of you had hot meals for lunch...around here it was sandwiches/chips, save for Campbell's soup/grilled cheese in the winter!
My Mom always called evening meals supper we ate at 6pm, but we always had sunday dinner at 2 pm. I never even realized it till reading this thread! I call our evening meal dinner...
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For my dog, I call his meals "supper" -- but I call his breakfast "supper" too, so... yeah, that means nothing.
For us humanoids, I alternate between "supper" and "dinner." I think that I SAY "supper," but when I email my husband at work, asking if he feels like having A or B, I write "dinner." Funny thing, though, I feel so fancy (aka: pretentious) when I say "dinner" instead of "supper" and I don't know why that is. I guess I think of "dinner" as being properly dressed and eating at the dining room table instead of how we typically do it -- in sweats, at the coffee table in front of the TV.
For my dog, I call his meals "supper" -- but I call his breakfast "supper" too, so... yeah, that means nothing.
For us humanoids, I alternate between "supper" and "dinner." I think that I SAY "supper," but when I email my husband at work, asking if he feels like having A or B, I write "dinner." Funny thing, though, I feel so fancy (aka: pretentious) when I say "dinner" instead of "supper" and I don't know why that is. I guess I think of "dinner" as being properly dressed and eating at the dining room table instead of how we typically do it -- in sweats, at the coffee table in front of the TV.
I wouldn't even have to dress up that much. DH has a new part time job in the evenings, so he is never home at dinner time.
Funny that some of you had hot meals for lunch...around here it was sandwiches/chips, save for Campbell's soup/grilled cheese in the winter!
My mom always prepared three hot meals every day. I remember for dinner she served three vegetables alongside the main course always, and we had two meatless dinners every week.
This introduced us to a wide variety of vegetables, and when our friends would eat at our home they were surprised that we actually ate veggies. Some of our friends would say the only vegetables they ate were french fries.
Eating so many vegetables when I was growing up made the switch to vegetarian easy when I decided to stop eating meat for ethical reasons.
At our house dinner and supper are synonyms. No matter what you call it, it's usually good.
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